[Albert] Camus writes his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in thanks to his teacher.
The First Man is [Albert Camus] posthumous last work. But in fact, in a certain way, it is his first, because in it you find the signs of his commitments, and of the whole way of writing as well. This mixture of austerity and sensuality, the will to speak for those not able to speak for themselves.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
I think [Albert Camus] wanted to write something to explain who he was, and how he was different from the age that had been conferred upon him.
We can't talk about the book [Albert Camus] wanted to write because we have barely its beginnings. He had written hardly any of it, but he needed to write it. It seems to me that if you look at the style of The First Man it conforms much more to who he was as a man, it resembles him very closely.
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